Engineers at Yale University have discovered that the stiffness of liquid drops embedded in solids has something in common with Goldilocks: While large drops of liquids are softer than the solid that ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new view of the solar system's early days proposes that the first two kinds of solid materials ...

Solids, liquids and gases. In a solid like this brick, the particles are regularly arranged touching their neighbours and move only by vibrating. This explains why solids have a fixed shape. In a ...